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Mexico presidential candidate wants amnesty for drug cartel kingpins

Mexico presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador sparks outrage by suggesting drug cartel kingpins should be offered amnesty in Mexico's most violent state Guerrero.

Dec 5, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Mexico

'People were being sick and peeing themselves': Passengers' horror as engine explodes during take-off

Shaken Thomas Cook holidaymakers said they were "lucky to be alive" after plane engine explodes during take-off.

Dec 4, 2017

By Roger Baird

Video shows hero fireman crawl onto thin ice to save dog that fell through

Footage taken in Saskatchewan, Canada, shows a firefighter sliding onto thin ice to save a dog, which had been stuck for half an hour.

Dec 4, 2017

By Charlotte Tobitt

American financier Rohina Bhandari killed in Costa Rica shark attack

New York financier Rohina Bhandari named as American tourist killed in shark attack off coast of Costa Rica.

Dec 4, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Honduras on knife edge as count says President Hernandez got more votes in 'stolen' election

TV star turned opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla has accused Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's government of trying to steal the election.

Dec 4, 2017

By David Sim

Politics Pictures

Venezuela's latest answer to 4,000% inflation – Bitcoin-like digital currency

President Nicolas Maduro announces his socialist government would launch its own cryptocurrency to beat US-led sanctions.

Dec 4, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Bitcoin

Mexican drug cartel forces rival hitman to 'confess sins' before brutal Isis-style beheading

The execution was carried out by the hitmen from the Viagras cartel and is meant to be a message to the competing Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Dec 4, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Families of missing Argentine submarine crew protest the end of the search effort

The families of the 44 crew members of the missing Argentine submarine protested against the government after the search effort was called off.

Dec 4, 2017

By Nicole Rojas

Argentina

Brother of Barcelona star Lionel Messi arrested after gun recovered in his blood-covered boat

Barcelona star Lionel Messi's older brother was arrested after police recovered a gun in a blood-covered boat he claimed to have abandoned following an accident.

Dec 4, 2017

By Nicole Rojas

Lionel Messi Argentina Barcelona FC

Tiger shark attacks and kills American tourist in Costa Rica

A 49-year-old women has died after she was attacked by a tiger shark on a diving tour off the coast of Costa Rica.

Dec 2, 2017

By James Hetherington

Canadian police ask for public to help find missing 15-year-old girl

Police in London, Ontario are asking for public help to locate 15-year-old Lily Michel, who has been missing since Monday 27 November.

Dec 1, 2017

By James Tennent

London

New York model Desiree Gibbon found dead with throat slashed at side of road in Jamaica

New York model Desiree Gibbon has been found dead on the side of the road with her throat slashed in Jamaica.

Dec 1, 2017

By Paul Wright

New York

Prisoners want $15m from Canadian government after witnessing brutal murder of fellow inmate

Prisoners at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre witnessed and heard the murder of fellow inmate Adam Kargus in October 2013.

Dec 1, 2017

By Neil Murphy

Human rights

ARA San Juan: 'Uncontrolled electric shock' and hydrogen gas may have killed crew of missing sub

The frigate's former captain and naval engineer Horacio Tobías believes hydrogen poisoning may have led to the deaths of the sailors.

Dec 1, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Boy, 11, was raped, hung with a wire and dismembered 'in suspected satanic ritual'

An 11-year-old boy from Argentina was kidnapped, raped, hung with a wire and dismembered in a suspected satanic ritual in 2016.

Dec 1, 2017

By Nicole Rojas

Argentina

British Ecological Society photography competition

Ocelot captured using man-made path through jungle at night wins ecology photography contest

Although we think of man as having negative impacts on wildlife, several cats species use paths to rapidly move around the rainforest.

Dec 1, 2017

By David Sim

Photography Competition Pictures Conservation Science pictures

Argentine military submarine ARA San Juan

Argentina calls off search for 44-strong crew of missing submarine ARA San Juan

Argentina's navy has abandoned its search for the missing submarine ARA San Juan because it has "not been possible to locate".

Nov 30, 2017

By Brendan Cole

Argentina

Protesters barricade streets and clash with police in Honduras over disputed presidential election

Both President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his rival Salvador Nasralla, a television game show host allied with leftists, claimed victory after the election.

Nov 30, 2017

By David Sim

Politics Pictures

Puff puff pooch: Medicinal marijuana company plans weed treats for sick dogs

True Leaf wants to sell marijuana-extract chews and treats as health supplement to beat joint pain, anxiety and inflammation.

Nov 30, 2017

By Claire Toureille

Is Conor McGregor in trouble with an Irish cartel? Crime reporter says he is in a 'very dangerous place'

According to an Irish crime reporter, UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor is in serious danger with the Kinahan cartel after being involved in a pub brawl.

Nov 30, 2017

By Abhinav Kini

Conor McGregor UFC

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